Professor James Leloudis of the University of North Carolina wrote this op-ed piece in the News & Observer. He writes, “For more than a century, Silent Sam stood as a sentinel of white supremacy that lent dignity and respectability to systematic mob violence. This is the larger issue of law and order that is at stake […]

This issue is not going away anytime soon. In this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education we learn, “Since at least the 1960s, the monument has faced sporadic, often lonely, calls for removal. Those calls gained urgency last summer after a deadly weekend in another college town, Charlottesville, Va., where white supremacists marched, ostensibly […]

“Silent Sam” isn’t the only one. Charlotte, North Carolina has this confederate monument: Note: “Accepting the arbitrament of war, they preserved the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South, and became master builders in a re-united country.” What this says is after the Civil War, confederate veterans across the South were white supremacist terrorists, and it celebrates […]

When some people hear about monuments being removed, or even toppled, it’s as predictable as the sun rising tomorrow they’ll bleat about “taking history down” or “removing history.” What kind of “history” is being “removed?” I’ve blogged about this subject before. This plaque is on the side of the “Silent Sam” monument at the University […]